Alejandro Mayorkas Archives - New Jersey Globe

House impeaches Mayorkas on second try

February 13, 2024 9:41 pmFebruary 13, 2024 9:47 pm

After an embarrassing failure last week, House Republicans tried again tonight at impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – and this time they succeeded. Impeachment articles were approved on a 214-213 party-line vote, making Mayorkas the first cabinet secretary to...

Reps. Payne, Menendez blast Mayorkas impeachment as process moves forward

January 31, 2024 11:06 am

In the wee hours of this morning, the House Homeland Security Committee voted to move forward with articles of impeachment against U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the committed objections of the two New Jerseyans who serve on the...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

July 28, 2023 4:00 pmJuly 30, 2023 6:02 pm

This week marked the final week of congressional activity before the August recess; starting today, New Jersey’s representatives will be back in their home state for more than a month. But before they left, both chambers took up several important...

Bruck co-leads letter supporting DACA protections

November 22, 2021 10:54 am

Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck – alongside California Attorney General Rob Bonta, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and 21 other attorneys general across the country – issued a letter on Friday supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s proposal...

Menendez, Booker urge DHS to enforce law barring guns for domestic abusers

February 5, 2021 5:31 pm

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-North Bergen), Cory Booker (D-Newark) and a slew of Democratic colleagues on Friday demanded the Department of Homeland Security to begin enforcing a law named after a late New Jersey senator that bars those with a...

Menendez statement on Biden nominations

November 23, 2020 1:00 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, the ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after President-elect Joe Biden nominated Antony Blinken as Secretary of State, Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Avril...